Tribeca Bridge

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Tribeca Bridge by Skidmore Owings and Merrill, 1994
Seen from Chambers Street
New York, September 2007

“The Chambers Street Bridge or the Tribeca Bridge, was built in 1994 to improve connections for the northern part of Battery Park City. It connects Stuyvesant High School inside Battery Park City and the property of the Borough of Manhattan Community College. Although an exit to the street level exists on the Battery Park City side, the bridge connects directly into Stuyvesant High School. Designed by Skidmore Owings and Merrill, its lighting display at night has earned it the 1996 IES/NY Lumen Lighting Award.” (West Street pedestrian bridges, Wikipedia)

1440 Broadway

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W.O.R. Building by Starrett & Van Vleck, 1925
Renovated by Moed de Armas & Shannon, 2001
1440 Broadway
New York, September 2007

Midtown Comics Times Square

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Midtown Comics Times Square
W 40th Street
New York, September 2007

“Midtown Comics is a New York City comic book retailer with three shops in Manhattan and an e-commerce website. The largest comic book store in the United States, the company opened its first store in the Times Square area in 1997. Its second was opened on Lexington Avenue in 2004, and is known as the Grand Central store for its proximity to Grand Central Terminal. Its downtown store was opened on Fulton Street in the Financial District in November 2010, and its Astoria, Queens outlet store opened in March 2020. It also used to operate a boutique inside Manhattan's Times Square Toys R Us. The store is noted for appearances by celebrities known outside the comic book industry, for its friendly and energetic staff, and for being the most media-friendly comic store in the United States. It was named by The Village Voice in 2012 as the Best Comic Book Store in New York, and has been hailed by CBR.com as ‘the industry's leading retailer of comic books, graphic novels and manga.’ On July 13, 2012, the National Geographic Channel premiered Comic Store Heroes, a reality television program set at Midtown Comics. In 2013, it was ranked number 44 on Bleeding Cool magazine's Top 100 Power List of Comic Books, due to its geographic proximity to the then-headquarters of ‘Big Two’ of the American comic book publishing industry, Marvel Comics and DC Comics, and the relationship between the store and industry professionals.” (Midtown Comics, Wikipedia)

Statue of Liberty

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Statue of Liberty by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, 1886
Liberty Island, New York Harbor
New York, September 2007

“The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its metal framework was built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886. The statue is a figure of Libertas, a robed Roman liberty goddess. She holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand carries a tabula ansata inscribed JULY IV MDCCLXXVI (July 4, 1776 in Roman numerals), the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. A broken shackle and chain lie at her feet as she walks forward, commemorating the recent national abolition of slavery. After its dedication, the statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, seen as a symbol of welcome to immigrants arriving by sea. Bartholdi was inspired by a French law professor and politician, Édouard René de Laboulaye, who is said to have commented in 1865 that any monument raised to U.S. independence would properly be a joint project of the French and U.S. peoples. The Franco-Prussian War delayed progress until 1875, when Laboulaye proposed that the French finance the statue and the U.S. provide the site and build the pedestal. Bartholdi completed the head and the torch-bearing arm before the statue was fully designed, and these pieces were exhibited for publicity at international expositions.” (Statue of Liberty, Wikipedia)

The Brave One

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“The Brave One” billboard
W Houston Street
New York, September 2007

“The Brave One is a 2007 psychological thriller film directed by Neil Jordan and written by Roderick Taylor, Bruce A. Taylor and Cynthia Mort. The film stars Jodie Foster as Erica Bain, a New York City radio host whose partner is beaten to death by criminals. Terrified for her safety, she buys a pistol and undergoes a personality transformation, becoming a vigilante. Detective Sean Mercer (Terrence Howard) investigates the vigilante shootings, which lead him closer and closer to Bain. The film features Naveen Andrews, Nicky Katt, Zoë Kravitz, Mary Steenburgen and Luis Da Silva in supporting roles. The Brave One was released in the United States on September 14, 2007. The film received mixed reviews from critics who acclaimed Foster's performance but criticized its execution. It was a box office disappointment grossing $69 million worldwide. At the 65th Golden Globe Awards, Foster received a nomination for Best Actress Motion Picture in a Drama.” (The Brave One, Wikipedia)

Three buildings

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The Benjamin Hotel, 1927 - East 50th Street at Lexington Avenue
599 Lexington Avenue by Edward Larrabee Barnes/John MY Lee Architects, 1986
Citigroup Center by Hugh Stubbins, 1977 - East 53rd Street
New York, September 2007

Break on the steps

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Break on the steps
New York Public Library
Fifth Avenue
New York, September 2007

The News

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Former headquarters for the New York Daily News
East 42nd Street
New York, September 2007

“The (former) headquarters for the New York Daily News, on East 42nd Street, is a 1930 skyscraper masterpiece. The enormous lobby, with its illuminated revolving globe and compass points set into the floor, is an impressive monument to wonder and the bigness of the universe, as well as a nod to the newspaper’s global perspective. Then there’s the huge facade framing the 39-story building’s main entrance. This bas relief features the newspaper name, an urban cityscape, and a crowd of people, with this inscription: ‘he made so many of them.’ What does it mean? It’s part of a quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln: ‘God must love the common people; he made so many of them.’ Sounds like an homage to the regular New Yorkers who made the Daily News, which got its start in 1919 as the city’s first tabloid, one of the nation’s biggest newspapers throughout the 20th century. At the time of the building’s opening, the News had an impressive circulation of 1.3 million. Now it’s roughly half that.” (The mystery quote on the Daily News building, Ephemeral New York)

Truck on 42nd Street

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Truck blocking off street to prevent terrorism
United Nations
E 42nd Street
New York, September 2007

Capuchin Monastery

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Capuchin Monastery, St. John the Baptist Church
West 31th Street
New York, September 2007

“The brown brick Capuchin Monastery of St. John the Baptist was built in 1974[8] in the Brutalist style. It was sold to a retail property developer in 2016.” (St. John the Baptist Church, Wikipedia)

Pearl Street Station

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Plaque at the Site of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company's 1882 Pearl Street Station
Pearl Street
Financial District, Lower Manhattan
New York, September 2007

“Pearl Street Station was the first commercial central power plant in the United States. It was located at 255–257 Pearl Street in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City, just south of Fulton Street on a site measuring 50 by 100 feet (15 by 30 m). The station was built by the Edison Illuminating Company, under the direction of Francis Upton, hired by Thomas Edison. Pearl Street Station was fired by coal; it began with six dynamos, and it started generating electricity on September 4, 1882, serving an initial load of 400 lamps at 82 customers. By 1884, Pearl Street Station was serving 508 customers with 10,164 lamps. The station was originally powered by custom-made Porter-Allen high-speed steam engines designed to provide 175 horsepower at 700 rpm, but these proved to be unreliable with their sensitive governors. They were removed and replaced with new engines from Armington & Sims that proved to be much more suitable for Edison's dynamos. Pearl Street Station was also the world's first cogeneration plant. While the steam engines provided grid electricity, Edison made use of the thermal byproduct by providing steam heating to local manufacturers and nearby buildings on the same Manhattan block.” (Pearl Street Station, Wikipedia)

Waterworks

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Waterworks
Pier 84 Upland
Hudson River Park
New York, September 2007

Tower Ladder 12

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FDNY Tower Ladder 12
5th Avenue at 22nd Street
New York, September 2007

Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises

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Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises
North River Piers, W 42nd Street
New York, September 2007

“Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises is a boat-based sightseeing and entertainment company in Manhattan, New York. Its principal business is operating guided tours of New York City from its base at Pier 83 in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood.” (Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises, Wikipedia)

Heavy tow truck

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Heavy tow truck recovering a bus
12th Avenue West
New York, September 2007

Mounted Unit Headquarters

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NYPD Mounted Unit Headquarters
12th Avenue West
New York, September 2007

Wavertree

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“Wavertree” museum ship
South Street Seaport
Lower Manhattan
New York, September 2007

“Wavertree is a historic iron-hulled sailing ship built in 1885. Now the largest wrought iron sailing vessel afloat, it is located at the South Street Seaport in New York City. Wavertree was built in Southampton, England in 1885[2] and was one of the last large sailing ships built of wrought iron. She was built for the Liverpool company R.W. Leyland & Company, and is named after the Wavertree district of that city. The ship was first used to carry jute between eastern India and Scotland. When less than two years old the ship entered the "tramp trades", taking cargoes anywhere in the world. In 1910, after sailing for a quarter century, the ship was dis-masted off Cape Horn and barely made it to the Falkland Islands. Rather than re-rigging the ship its owners sold it for use as a floating warehouse at Punta Arenas, Chile. Wavertree was converted into a sand barge at Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1947. This ship was discovered in 1967 at the Riachuelo River in Buenos Aires by an American citizen working on a sand barge and acquired by the South Street Seaport Museum in 1968. The ship was sent to the Arsenal Naval Buenos Aires for restoration. In 1969 after restoration was complete, the ship was towed to New York. The vessel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 13, 1978.” (Wavertree, Wikipedia)

Brooklyn

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“Brooklyn” by Daniel Chester French, 1916
Brooklyn Museum
Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn
New York, September 2007

Seagrave Marauder II

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FDNY Seagrave Marauder II Pumper
5th Avenue at 22nd Street
New York, September 2007

Church of the Guardian Angel

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Church of the Guardian Angel
Tenth Avenue
Chelsea, Manhattan
New York, September 2007

“The Church of the Guardian Angel is a Roman Catholic church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 193 Tenth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan, New York City, New York. The present Southern Sicilian Romanesque-style brick church at 193 Tenth Avenue was built 1930 to the designs of John Van Pelt of Van Pelt, Hardy & Goubert. Plan were filed in 1929, and it was likely begun that year. Stylistically, it is similar to Van Pelt's other churches in Manhattan and the Bronx. The church design ‘is reminiscent of the early Romanesque sculpture at the abbey of Moissac. Both churches have a scalloped profile that seems to incorporate a bit of Moorish influence. Both the human and animal forms are treated with the same incredible flexibility...’ The AIA Guide to New York City (1988) writes ‘The church's simple brick and limestone Southern Sicilian Romanesque facade merges with the Tuscan village forms of auxiliary buildings to the north in a well- related group.’ AIA Guide to New York City (2010) describes the church as ‘lush brick and limestone, Italian Romanesque, backed up snug against the High Line. Despite the obvious difference in style and materials, the two were built around the same time.’” (Church of the Guardian Angel, Wikipedia)